"players of Fijian heritage currently play in the Australian Football League to date there is still no AFL competition in the country. Sport in older times had a practical place, apart from recreation, helping train young warriors. One such practice would have the older men bring the male children a severally injured captive of war, allowing the boys to practice their archery skills against this living target. There were other sports that were practiced in older times which are not practiced now. Notable traditional sports used to be played were ""tiqa"", ""ulutoa"", ""veisaga"", and ""veisolo"". Sport in Fiji Rugby union"
"nature of the ball (for the catcher) and the opportunity for the pursuing players to challenge for it made it an often comical, and controversial move particularly in the case of defensive players 'chickening out' under pressure. Being able to secure bombs is a sought after quality in fullbacks and wingers. In rugby union, the term 'bomb' is rarely used, with 'up and under' or ""Garryowen"" (after the Garryowen Football Club that popularised the tactic) preferred. It allows the attacking team to disrupt the defensive line, take the defence's pressure off themselves and put offensive pressure on their opponents. However,"
"having played in the first final in 1886 and the 100th final in 1986. In playing terms a ""garryowen"" is a very high up and under kick (named after the rugby club) designed to put the opposing team under pressure, by allowing the kicking team time to arrive under and compete for the high ball. It is thought to have come part of the modern lexicon in the early 1920s as one of the great Garryowen teams that won three Senior cups from 1924 to 1926 used this tactic to the utmost. The following Garryowen players have represented Ireland at"
"sports, other sports sometimes have their own terminology for verbal abuse: for example, cricket calls it sledging and in ice hockey it is called chirping. Down Gaelic footballer Brendan Coulter has admitted to being targeted by sledging while on the field of play. The Wealdstone Raider, a notorious fan hailing from Wealdstone, is known for trash-talking the opposition and opposition's fans. Smack talk is a slang term seen in chat channels in chat room, blog, and massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) conversations. The term came about in the early 1990s. It generally refers to the use of threatening or intentionally"
"They sang ""The Black Velvet Band"" to the Ospreys' Irish winger Tommy Bowe during their 2009 Heineken Cup quarter final encounter. Tommy Bowe sang this song at the official reception for the 2009 Grand Slam winning Ireland rugby team. Munster Rugby has given the word ""Garryowen"" to the rugby lexicon. Famously, the Limerick club of Garryowen introduced the ""Garryowen kick"", a high up and under which puts defending players under pressure. Munster A is the team that represents Munster in the Celtic Cup and in the All-Ireland Inter-Provincial Championship. Pre-professionalism and a formal Celtic league structure, the main Munster team"
"caravan & camping, OCR, diving, wakeboarding, triathlons, boating, sailing, rugby, surf life saving, kayaking, windsurfing, kitesurfing, paddle boarding, football, mountain biking, skiing/snowboarding, climbing, cycling, cross-country, cliff diving, ironman competitions, athletics, boxing, canoeing, lacrosse, hockey, equestrian, curling outdoor obstacle events such as Tough Mudder, Spartan and Redbull extreme sports. Dryrobe dryrobe is a United Kingdom-based clothing brand, created by Gideon Bright. The brand's first product was released in 2010 as a solution to keep athletes and amateur sportspeople warm that were regularly exposed to the elements. It was originally aimed at surfers, but has since branched out to be used by"
"championship games in both hurling and Gaelic football. Most of the All-Ireland semi-finals between Munster and Connacht teams also took place there in the early years of the 1900s. It was also the home of Garryowen, a rugby club founded in Limerick in 1884, from 1886 until 1957. Garryowen have since moved to new facilities in the Dooradoyle area of Limerick. For most of its life it has been greyhound racing stadium. Greyhound racing ceased on 17 July 2010 with the opening of a new greyhound stadium at Greenpark in the south of the city. The Markets Field is also"
"Bomb (kick) A bomb also known as an up and under or a Garryowen is a type of kick used in various codes of football. As the names suggests, it is a high kick intended to send the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down (see ""hang time""). The execution of a ""bomb"" in rugby league involves putting up a high kick in general play. The ball often does not travel very far forward, giving the attacking team time to run ahead to where it is expected to land, providing the possibility of"
"November 2011. Murder of Shane Geoghegan Shane Geoghegan (7 March 1980 – 9 November 2008) was a rugby player for Garryowen who was shot and killed in a case of mistaken identity as part of a gang feud in Dooradoyle, a suburb in the city of Limerick, Ireland. The murder took place in the early hours of Sunday morning, 9 November 2008. He had no links with organised crime gangs. Shane Geoghegan was a 28-year-old native of Limerick City. He worked for Air Atlanta as an aircraft fitter and was a keen rugby fan, playing as prop with Garryowen and"
"Galoshes Galoshes, also known as dickersons, gumshoes, rubbers, or overshoes, are a type of rubber boot that is slipped over shoes to keep them from getting muddy or wet. In the United States, the word ""galoshes"" may be used interchangeably with boot, especially a rubberized boot. In the United Kingdom, however, a galosh is an overshoe made of a weatherproof material to protect a more vulnerable shoe underneath and keep the foot warm and dry. The word comes through French (""galoche"") and Latin from Greek and originally meant a shoemaker's last; literally ""wood"" + ""foot"". By the 14th century it"
"may have a theme (such as high-heeled shoes). There are currently at least seventy-six such shoe trees in the United States, and an undetermined number elsewhere. Boot throwing, or welly wanging, has been a competitive sport in New Zealand and Britain for many years, although not one that is taken very seriously. Wellington boots are the heavy rubber boots worn by most farm workers and many other outdoor workers. A competition to see who can throw a boot, or ""welly"", the furthest is a feature of many Agricultural Field Days in the rural communities. The town of Taihape in the"
"following. Other popular sports in the Illawarra include golf, rock climbing, surfing, cup stacking, triathlon and mountain biking. In the book ""Quidditch Through the Ages"" by J. K. Rowling, the Wollongong Warriors are listed as one of Australia's quidditch teams. They have a rivalry with the Thundelarra Thunderers, and are the inventors of the Wollongong Shimmy, a high-speed zig-zag move designed to confuse and distract opposing Chasers. Wollongong Warriors is now a real club in Australian Quidditch Association, a Muggle quidditch league. Wollongong will be hosting the UCI Road World Championships in 2022. In addition to numerous swimming and surfing"
"sport, it has developed various styles, each with its own specialized equipment and technique. The most common styles today are: freeride, freestyle, and freecarve/race. These styles are used for both recreational and professional snowboarding. While each style is unique, there is overlap between them. ""Jibbing"" is technical riding on non-standard surfaces, which usually includes performing tricks. The word ""jib"" is both a noun and a verb, depending on the usage of the word. As a noun: a jib includes metal rails, boxes, benches, concrete ledges, walls, vehicles, rocks and logs. As a verb: to jib is referring to the action"
"Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke and four time major winner Rory McIlroy. The biennial golf competition, the Ryder Cup, is named after English businessman Samuel Ryder who sponsored the event and donated the trophy. Sir Nick Faldo is the most successful British Ryder Cup player. In 1845, rugby union was created when the first rules were written by pupils at Rugby School, Warwickshire. A former pupil of the school William Webb Ellis, is often fabled with the invention of running with the ball in hand in 1823. The first rugby international took place on 27 March 1871, played between England and"
"Tambourelli Tambourelli is a court game invented in Galloway in Scotland in the 1970s. It has since spread all over the world, with small communities of players running active clubs in England, Scotland, Germany, Japan and Sweden. It shares many players, coaches and fans with Tamburello as well as Tambeach. The fundamental aim is for players to stop the shuttlecock from landing within the court on their side of the net. Players hit the shuttlecock with a bat similar to a tambour (like a tambourine without bells) or Irish bodhrán which has a strap along the outer edge and a"
"Wheelchair rugby Wheelchair rugby (originally murderball, and known as quad rugby in the United States) is a team sport for athletes with a disability. It is practised in over twenty-five countries around the world and is a summer Paralympic sport. The US name is based on the requirement that all wheelchair rugby players need to have disabilities that include at least some loss of function in at least three limbs. Although most have spinal cord injuries, players may also qualify through multiple amputations, neurological disorders or other medical conditions. Players are assigned a functional level in points, and each team"
"area. In the 1970s the phrase ""up and under"" became associated with Rugby League in Britain, when it became the catchphrase of Eddie Waring, an English rugby league coach, commentator and television presenter. In recent times the ""Up and Under"" was mastered by Bobbie Goulding helping St. Helens to the inaugural Super League title, and several others after that. It was a common feature of the Saints and though it suffered criticism for its 'negative' quality (at the same time rugby union was under similar scrutiny for turning into a 'kicking' game) it was an extremely effective tactic. The risky"
"second and fourth year (1992, 1994), Garryowen reached two finals and a number of semi-finals only to fall just short. However, 2007 proved a spectacular year for the Limerick side, seeing them finally re-take the AIL crown after their years of disappointment and also the Munster Senior and AIL cups in what is an unprecedented clean sweep of all domestic competitions in Irish club rugby. In total Garryowen have won the Munster Senior Cup 38 times, more times than any other club. Garryowen won the trophy nine times in a row between 1889 and 1898 and have the distinction of"
"ball), Camp-ball (late medieval includes ""kicking camp""), Football (late medieval), The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers (Masonic ceremonial), Haxey Hood (""Hood"" being the name given to a leather tube used instead of a ball), La soule (""soule"" being the name for the ball in northern France), and Scoring the Hales (an alternative name for goals used in Cumbria and the Scottish borders). A contemporary collective term coined for these games is ""Mob football"". During the early modern period public schools open to the paying public (an alternative to private home education) adopted the ball game as a"
"a 1994 ""Spin"" magazine feature, Elizabeth Gilbert characterized buckle bunnies as an essential element of the rodeo scene, and described a particularly dedicated group of bunnies who are known on the rodeo circuit for their supportive attitude and generosity, going beyond sex, to ""some fascination with providing the most macho group of guys on Earth with the only brand of nurturing they will accept"". Similar individuals are seen in other sports, such as the ""puck bunny"" in hockey, Baseball Annies and the ""snow bunny"" in skiing. Recently, in Irish sport, particularly in GAA sports the term ""Jersey Puller"" or ""Jersey"
"Advancing across the gain line represents a gain in territory. Garryowen A Garryowen, or up-and-under kick, is a high short punt onto or behind the defending team. Goal A goal is scored when a player kicks the ball through the plane bounded by the two uprights and above the crossbar. A ""drop goal"" or ""penalty goal"" count for 3 points and ""conversions"" count for two. Goal from mark Goal from mark is an antiquated method of scoring. It occurred when a player ""marked"" and scored a goal from there. In the modern game, a goal cannot be scored from a"
"Murder of Shane Geoghegan Shane Geoghegan (7 March 1980 – 9 November 2008) was a rugby player for Garryowen who was shot and killed in a case of mistaken identity as part of a gang feud in Dooradoyle, a suburb in the city of Limerick, Ireland. The murder took place in the early hours of Sunday morning, 9 November 2008. He had no links with organised crime gangs. Shane Geoghegan was a 28-year-old native of Limerick City. He worked for Air Atlanta as an aircraft fitter and was a keen rugby fan, playing as prop with Garryowen and was captain"
"people in northern England and in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland. In the United Kingdom, rugby union fans sometimes used the term ""rugger"" as an alternative name for the sport, (see Oxford '-er'), although this archaic expression has not had currency since the 1950s or earlier. New Zealanders refer to rugby union simply as either ""rugby"" or ""union"", or even simply ""football"", and to rugby league as ""rugby league"" or ""league"". In the U.S., people who play rugby are sometimes called ""ruggers"", a term little used elsewhere except facetiously. In France, rugby is widely played and"
"are more recent, mostly invented to help publicise sports not traditionally popular in Australia. Some journalists have criticised the practice as embarrassing, gimmicky, or PR-driven. The name ""Wallabies"" was chosen by the 1908 rugby union side, making its first tour of the Northern Hemisphere. British newspapers had already nicknamed the 1905 New Zealand touring team the ""All Blacks"" from their kit colour; the 1906 South African tourists had adopted ""Springboks"". ""Rabbits"" was first suggested for Australia, but rejected since rabbits there are notorious as pests. Until the 1980s, only touring sides were ""Wallabies""; players on the eight tours up to"
"a photographic film-based event and is currently mainly practised in non-English speaking countries. Underwater rugby (UWR) is an underwater sport whose play involves two teams seeking to gain control of a slightly negatively buoyant ball (filled with saltwater) and passing it into a heavy metal bucket serving as the opponents’ goal at the bottom of a swimming pool. It originated from within the physical fitness training regime existing in German diving clubs during the early 1960s and has little in common with rugby football except for the name. It was recognised by CMAS in 1978 and was first played as"
"""Out the Road"" by Gaelic Storm is about a road bowling score. Additionally, footage of a road bowling score is included in a YouTube video shot by band founders Pat Murphy and Steve Twigger about their trip to Murphy's native County Cork during the production of their album ""Chicken Boxer"" (which includes ""Out the Road""). Game terminology (as used primarily in Ireland) includes: Irish road bowling Road bowling (; also called [long] bullets) is an Irish sport in which competitors attempt to take the fewest throws to propel a metal ball along a predetermined course of country roads. The sport"
"with a slightly textured surface to provide a better grip. The balls are normally over-inflated compared to volleyball, to provide a better bounce. The official ball of the sport from 2013-2016 is the Molten soft-touch volleyball, model number WR58X. Players use a variety of other personal equipment, such as gloves and applied adhesives to assist with ball handling due to their usually impaired gripping ability, and various forms of strapping to maintain a good seating position. To be eligible to play wheelchair rugby, athletes must have some form of disability with a loss of function in both the upper and"
"most commonly called ""gum boots"" or ""gumbies"", an alternative name, ""Blucher Boot"", is occasionally used by some older Australians. Blücher was Wellington's colleague at the Battle of Waterloo and there is speculation that some early emigrants to Australia, remembering the battle, may have confused a different design the Blucher shoe developed by Blucher. The Australian poet Henry Lawson wrote a poem to a pair of Blucher Boots in 1890. Usually called rubber boots, but sometimes galoshes, rain boots, mucking boots, billy boots, or gum-boots, are popular in Canada and the United States, particularly in springtime when melting snows leave wet"
"wheel-chair rugby were played in Pembrey, near Llanelli, Wales as early as the 1960s. Photo of early game c1960's At that time, wheelchair basketball was the most common team sport for wheelchair users. That sport's physical requirement for players to dribble and shoot baskets relegated quadriplegic athletes, with functional impairments to both their upper and lower limbs, to supporting roles. The new sport — originally called ""murderball"" due to its aggressive, full-contact nature — was designed to allow quadriplegic athletes with a wide range of functional ability levels to play integral offensive and defensive roles. Murderball was first introduced into"
"Common attacking kicks include the ""up and under"", box kick, ""grubber"", crossfield kick and chip kick. The up and under, also known as a ""bomb"" or ""Garryowen"", is a high punt. A well executed up and under will be high enough to give anyone chasing enough time to compete for the ball. Box kicks are similar, but are kicked by the scrum-half over their shoulder when a ruck, maul, scrum or line-out occurs near the touchline. The ball is kicked high and parallel to the touchline with the wingers chasing. If the ball is kicked along the ground it is"
"of buckskin. The derby became a popular sporting and hunting boot in the 1850s. By the turn of the 20th century, the derby had become appropriate for wear in town. Derby shoe A derby ( , ; also called gibson) is a style of boot or shoe characterized by quarters with shoelace eyelets that are sewn on top of the vamp. This construction method, also known as ""open lacing"", contrasts with that of the oxford. In American English the derby shoe may be referred to as a blucher, although technically the blucher is a different design of shoe where only"
"1941, Horween Leather Company has been the exclusive supplier of leather for National Football League footballs. The arrangement was established by Arnold Horween, who had played and coached in the NFL. Horween Leather Company also supplies leather to Spalding, supplier of balls to the Arena Football League. Despite the moniker ""pigskin"" sometimes used to refer to footballs, cow leather is used. Ball (gridiron football) In Canada and in the United States, a football is a ball, roughly in the form of a prolate spheroid, used in the context of playing gridiron football. Footballs are often made of cow hide leather,"
"while they were competing. This included Alistair Brownlee and Jonny Brownlee. The exposure of Team GB's athletes wearing the dryrobe, encouraged deals with other sports teams and events. Between 2014 and early 2016, new deals with United States Masters Swimming, Tough Mudder and the International Triathlon Union were all agreed. By early 2016, the brand had expanded beyond triathletes and was now been used by other extreme sports athletes. dryrobe Inc. was launched in the United States, with a warehouse to fulfil growing interest in the product in the USA & Canada. This was down to the high interest and"